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60. Personally, Not in the least.
I grew up in the UK, right in the heart of the IRAs most active years. The one thing I learnt from my stoic British upbringing, is the minute you let shit like that get to you and change an iota of how you live your life, the terrorists win.
Obviously the government used the situation to their advantage and instead of taking the attitude of not letting the terrorists win, they saw a wedge they could use, to whip up fear and confusion and allow them to pursue some of their less than popular policy aims without too much ado from the public.
The public, for the most part, went along happily, just like lambs to the slaughter.

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  -They say 9-11 changed everything, did it change YOU? mopaul  Mar-31-05 05:11 AM   #0 
  - That phrase was always the most annoying hyperbole to ever  Ruffhowse   Mar-31-05 05:17 AM   #1 
  - Hear wht the Europeans have said about this statement?  caledesi   Mar-31-05 05:20 AM   #2 
  - Changed everything?  adwon   Mar-31-05 05:22 AM   #3 
  - Made me an ex-Christian instantly  carolinayellowdog   Mar-31-05 05:33 AM   #4 
  - it was the follow up behavior/lies of WH that made me more cynical  rodeodance   Mar-31-05 05:36 AM   #5 
  - I find I have to be more careful. lest there be people around me if  rodeodance   Mar-31-05 05:39 AM   #6 
     - me too, you have to gauge the crowd you're with  mopaul   Mar-31-05 05:41 AM   #7 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Mar-31-05 08:14 AM   #28 
     - Couldn't you have just made your first statement in your reply?  notadmblnd   Mar-31-05 09:21 AM   #34 
        - Believers are compelled to attribute unbelief to character flaws  carolinayellowdog   Mar-31-05 09:28 AM   #36 
           - well in my opinion...  notadmblnd   Mar-31-05 09:32 AM   #39 
  - 9/11 itself changed nothing for me  ima_sinnic   Mar-31-05 05:52 AM   #8 
  - It didn't change my outlook  verdalaven   Mar-31-05 05:55 AM   #9 
  - I have to agree with caledesi...  Mikimouse   Mar-31-05 06:02 AM   #10 
  - It was a subtle shift.  dbt   Mar-31-05 06:04 AM   #11 
  - Yup  Squeech   Mar-31-05 06:08 AM   #12 
  - For those of us that worked within walking range of the WTC, yes.  BrklynLiberal   Mar-31-05 06:10 AM   #13 
  - I agree and it changed New York as well.  smirkymonkey   Mar-31-05 09:46 AM   #42 
  - It Intensified My Hatred For Those Destroying Our Country  GiovanniC   Mar-31-05 06:21 AM   #14 
  - Nothing changed, and why would it?  The Devils Advocate   Mar-31-05 06:22 AM   #15 
  - Yes, it changed me  Boomer   Mar-31-05 06:23 AM   #16 
  - Sounds exactly like me, but I was an apolitical republican. nt  recoveringrepublican   Mar-31-05 09:15 AM   #32 
  - It didn't affect me that much  cmd   Mar-31-05 06:25 AM   #17 
  - I'm a New Yorker and it changed a lot for me  Danmel   Mar-31-05 06:30 AM   #18 
  - I can relate to everything you said--I moved upstate after 9/11  animuscitizen   Mar-31-05 09:31 AM   #38 
  - Thank you for putting into words what I could not.  BrklynLiberal   Mar-31-05 10:24 AM   #44 
  - Waiting for the other shoe to drop describes how I've felt since 9/11  TheGoldenRule   Apr-01-05 03:10 AM   #69 
  - The aftermath changed me.  kiki   Mar-31-05 06:35 AM   #19 
  - No. I fully expected a 9-11 to happen with Bu$h in office. And it did.  wildwww2   Mar-31-05 07:12 AM   #20 
  - It removed all doubt about the evil of the bush regime  freestyle   Mar-31-05 07:21 AM   #21 
  - As I watched the towers tumble  xpat   Mar-31-05 07:24 AM   #22 
  - For About 3-Months. -NT-  jayfish   Mar-31-05 07:43 AM   #23 
  - It made me aware of just how evil Bush really is  jmowreader   Mar-31-05 07:46 AM   #24 
  - As a NYer I was deeply and profoundly changed  Mizmoon   Mar-31-05 08:01 AM   #25 
  - It sure did!  JNelson6563   Mar-31-05 08:02 AM   #26 
  - I discovered the internet  there-s a   Mar-31-05 08:11 AM   #27 
  - 11/22/63  libhill   Mar-31-05 08:14 AM   #29 
  - Honestly,  Lauri16   Mar-31-05 09:09 AM   #30 
  - Yes it did, it's part of the reason I'm here now  recoveringrepublican   Mar-31-05 09:13 AM   #31 
  - You're not alone,me too.  there-s a   Mar-31-05 09:27 AM   #35 
  - yes, I've become more cynical and mistrusting of our government  notadmblnd   Mar-31-05 09:15 AM   #33 
  - It was the shocking action of Bush v Gore in 2000 that changed me...  DARE to HOPE   Mar-31-05 09:29 AM   #37 
  - 9/11 was probably  libhill   Mar-31-05 03:37 PM   #49 
  - Agree - December 12, 2000 was the day that changed everything.  kath   Mar-31-05 11:15 PM   #67 
  - 9/11 changed America for the worse  endor_moon   Mar-31-05 09:38 AM   #40 
  - It made me more liberal and a more partisan Democrat. n/t  Heaven and Earth   Mar-31-05 09:42 AM   #41 
  - Well, it's not a mostly forgotten event for me.  Bouncy Ball   Mar-31-05 09:55 AM   #43 
  - It woke my ass up to the idea we're being lied to about nearly everything.  clem_c_rock   Mar-31-05 10:34 AM   #45 
  - And what really pisses ya off  libhill   Mar-31-05 03:40 PM   #50 
     - It seems like something out of a bad comic book  clem_c_rock   Mar-31-05 03:49 PM   #51 
  - It's what got me interested in politics  primate1   Mar-31-05 03:07 PM   #46 
  - Yes.  PowerToThePeople   Mar-31-05 03:09 PM   #47 
  - It made me even more cynical than I already was.  Tierra_y_Libertad   Mar-31-05 03:16 PM   #48 
  - Before 9/11, the worst thing that could happen  ContraBass Black   Mar-31-05 03:53 PM   #52 
  - For me, Everything changed after December 2000  WLKjr   Mar-31-05 03:55 PM   #53 
  - Yup. 9/11 was simply the other shoe.  Lilith Velkor   Mar-31-05 05:10 PM   #56 
  - I realized that day the GREAT potential of the USA  Discord   Mar-31-05 03:59 PM   #54 
  - i haven't changed at all  maxsolomon   Mar-31-05 04:04 PM   #55 
  - I didn't live through the 9/11 shock like the rest of America  Tactical Progressive   Mar-31-05 05:18 PM   #57 
  - It really changed  manic expression   Mar-31-05 05:21 PM   #58 
  - No  Johonny   Mar-31-05 05:30 PM   #59 
  - Personally, Not in the least.  sloppyliberal   Mar-31-05 05:40 PM   #60 
  - It didn't change much  XemaSab   Mar-31-05 05:55 PM   #61 
  - This is an interesting question, and I'm really impressed that  BlueIris   Mar-31-05 06:11 PM   #62 
  - I despised the Saudi royals before it and I still do.  distressedsister   Mar-31-05 06:13 PM   #63 
  - War on truth  Generator   Mar-31-05 06:15 PM   #64 
  - Yes, it changed me, intrinsically.  kk897   Mar-31-05 10:51 PM   #65 
  - It confirmed all my worst fears re: the New World Order...  RBHam   Mar-31-05 11:07 PM   #66 
  - opened my eyes  zonmoy   Mar-31-05 11:27 PM   #68 
 

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